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Selling digital tech into the EU? The new Cyber Resilience Act will apply to you

Selling digital tech into the EU? The new Cyber Resilience Act will apply to you

Makers of “products with digital elements” sold in the EU now need to report security incidents within 24 hours.

David Hollingworth Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Revolut discloses accidental data breach following government agency email scam

Revolut discloses accidental data breach following government agency email scam

British fintech and bank Revolut has revealed that it suffered a data incident after it exposed sensitive customer data ...

Daniel Croft Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Op-Ed: Why third-party breaches are becoming everyone’s problem

Op-Ed: Why third-party breaches are becoming everyone’s problem

Every time a major cyber breach makes headlines, Australian security leaders face the same urgent question: Does this ...

Kash Sharma, Managing Director APAC, at BlueVoyant Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Act now! Hackers probing critical GitLab vulnerability just 1 day after patching

Act now! Hackers probing critical GitLab vulnerability just 1 day after patching

CVE-2026-85706 is the second critical-severity vulnerability impacting GitLab in less than a month – and hackers are ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Exclusive: Penfold Motors latest car dealer to fall victim to the Storm ransomware group

Exclusive: Penfold Motors latest car dealer to fall victim to the Storm ransomware group

Victorian car dealership says it is contacting its customers after their contact and vehicle details were compromised by ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Busted! Conti ransomware member cops 4-year prison term

Busted! Conti ransomware member cops 4-year prison term

A Ukrainian national is sentenced for wire fraud in relation to cyber crimes that netted more than US$150 million.

David Hollingworth Fri, 11 Sep 2026
Patch now! Cisco warns of state and criminal hackers targeting a pair of Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities

Patch now! Cisco warns of state and criminal hackers targeting a pair of Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities

The Russian Sandworm group and the Qilin ransomware gang are among several threat actors exploiting bugs in Cisco’s FMC ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 11 Sep 2026
Op-Ed: Sovereign encryption is becoming a front-line defence capability

Op-Ed: Sovereign encryption is becoming a front-line defence capability

Australian organisations have four months left to produce a plan for their transition to post-quantum cryptography.

Andrew Wilson, chief executive officer of Senetas Fri, 11 Sep 2026
Hacked! Surfshark discloses unauthorised access to internal test server

Hacked! Surfshark discloses unauthorised access to internal test server

The popular VPN provider says no customer data has been impacted after human error exposes internal engineering ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 11 Sep 2026
Cyber Wardens program to shut down as government funding ends

Cyber Wardens program to shut down as government funding ends

The COSBOA CEO says lessons learnt from the program “will help shape what comes next” as she celebrates assisting 23,150 ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 11 Sep 2026
Exclusive: Not-for-profit Way Forward suspends payments following external cyber incident

Exclusive: Not-for-profit Way Forward suspends payments following external cyber incident

An Australian charity supporting those in financial hardship has disclosed a third-party cyber incident impacting its ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 10 Sep 2026
Multiple hardware crypto wallet providers warn of phishing emails after third-party incident

Multiple hardware crypto wallet providers warn of phishing emails after third-party incident

Trezor and BitBox are among the companies warning of scam emails after their newsletter provider was allegedly ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 10 Sep 2026
Report: Data exposure in the financial services sector almost doubles year on year

Report: Data exposure in the financial services sector almost doubles year on year

Despite surging exposure figures, 66 per cent of boards expect their CISOs to guarantee that breaches will not happen.

David Hollingworth Thu, 10 Sep 2026